Desktop Research: Reports and Research

We'd love to see your additions here as well! Please use the edit this page button to add an item, or add comments on how or why you think they may or may not be important. As is the convention throughout the Horizon Project Wiki, we ask you to mark items you think are of high interest to this project, as I have done here by typing 4 tilde (~) characters-- - LarryFeb 7, 2012 This will help us to sift through the articles and determine which ones resonate most strongly with the board as a whole.

Recommended Reading

The Broadband Imperative: Recommendations to Address K-12 Educational Infrastructure Needshttp://www.setda.org/web/guest/broadbandimperative
This report assesses broadband access in and out K-12 schools by students and teachers, discussing trends, challenges and recommendations. As the Internet has integrated itself into our lives and occupations, it is now necessary that students learn to use the tools they will be expected to work with in the future. - davidwdeedsFeb 2, 2015- cristiana.mattosFeb 3, 2015- lindsay.julieFeb 4, 2015- bobmooreFeb 5, 2015

Charters, Public Schools and a Chasm Betweengo.nmc.org/chasm
Charter schools serve about 5 % of public-school students nationwide, according to the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. This has created a competitive environment between charter schools and traditional schools that stifles the collaboration that should exist between the two school models. - davidwdeedsFeb 2, 2015 Inability or at least reluctance re: change is why public schools are being abandoned. Who says collaboration "should exist"?

Cloud Computing and K-12 Classroomsgo.nmc.org/cloudand
A report by CDW Government found that over 40% of schools use cloud applications to store their data, and by 2016, schools are expected to spend 35% of IT budgets on the cloud. With these statistics in mind, the author provides examples of exactly how schools are using cloud services and the benefits they are experiencing.- dezuanniFeb 2, 2015- cristiana.mattosFeb 3, 2015- lindsay.julieFeb 4, 2015- bobmooreFeb 5, 2015

The Internet of Things Academy: Scoping Reportgo.nmc.org/superflux
This report from the Internet of Things Academy elaborates on the potential impact of the Internet of Things, presents a roadmap, and aims to build a community around IoT innovation.- jmorrisonJan 30, 2015- adrian_limFeb 2, 2015

Is 8th Grade Too Early to Pick a Career?go.nmc.org/car
The Education and Economic Development Act’s Personal Pathways to Success program is designed to improve career development, workforce development, and economic development for South Carolinians through early career planning and an individualized curriculum.

The New Digital Learning Playbook: Understanding the Spectrum of Students’ Activities and Aspirationshttp://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/SU13DigitalLearningPlaybook_StudentReport.html
The New Digital Learning Playbook: Understanding the Spectrum of Students’ Activities and Aspirations is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings from Speak Up 2013, which describes how students want to leverage digital tools for learning based upon the authentic, unfiltered ideas of students themselves.- mariaFeb 5, 2015.

Report: Number of Homeless Students Hits All-Time Highhttp://www.educationdive.com/news/report-number-of-homeless-students-hits-all-time-high/334794/
One in 30 school-age children in the U.S. is homeless, according to "America's Youngest Outcasts," a study issued by the National Center on Family Homelessness.Homelessness is a major issue, especially with students. According to the 2014 report "Don't Call Them Dropouts" from Tufts University's Center for Promise, homeless students are 87% more likely to stop going to school.

School on the Cloudgo.nmc.org/eusoc
The School on the Cloud partnership is an ICT network funded by the European Commission that works to evaluate future resources and scenarios for education in a cloud environment, then disseminate and expand best practices. It currently includes 18 countries. Yes, this focuses on innovative pedagogy linked with emerging technologies - lindsay.julieFeb 4, 2015- mariaFeb 5, 2015- bobmooreFeb 5, 2015

6 Ways to Modernize Teacher-Preparation Programshttp://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/11/04/teacher-preparation-programs-199/
Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE) report gives a round-up of thought leaders’ tips and advice on the topic of teacher-preparation programs in the digital age. Each question posed in the report is answered by representatives from national organizations, such as the Center for Teaching Quality and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. They are summarized in this article.- dezuanniFeb 2, 2015- cristiana.mattosFeb 3, 2015- lindsay.julieFeb 4, 2015

Standards for Reporting Data to Educators: A Synthesis of More than 300 Studies and Texts from Experts in the Field www.overthecounterdata.com/s/OTCDStandards.pdf (see page 14) There is evidence the standards directly impact educators’ data analyses up to 436% depending on the standard applied.- drjrankinFeb 2, 2015- anton.ingleseFeb 2, 2015

State Education Standard on Deeper Learninggo.nmc.org/nasbe
Articles from the National Association of State Boards of Education explore a range of topics around deeper learning, including the need for systemic changes for deeper learning, assessments for deeper learning, examples of schools implementing deeper learning, and the findings and recommendations of NASBE’s 2013 “Study Group on Deeper Learning. - davidwdeedsFeb 2, 2015 Deeper and competency-based learning...there's a connection.- mariaFeb 5, 2015

State of the Artshttp://comptroller.nyc.gov/reports/state-of-the-arts/
Despite these widely-acknowledged benefits and clearly established mandates in New York State Education law, the provision of arts education in New York City’s public schools has become both inequitable and underfunded. This report provides a first-ever school-by-school breakdown of the state of arts education in the public schools, and overlays that information against the data on the city’s economic landscape.- dezuanniFeb 2, 2015- kathryn.moyleFeb 20, 2015 In Australia we have many teachers, teaching outside the discipline areas for which they are trained.

Statistics - girls in STEM educationhttp://www.ngcproject.org/statistics
Girls are taking many high level mathematics and science courses at similar rates as their male peers, with the exception of physics and engineering, and are performing well overall. However, gaps in mathematics and science achievement persist for minority and low-income students (NSF, Science & Engineering Indicators, 2012).- nada4webJan 31, 2015- davidwdeedsFeb 2, 2015 Just one reason why I prefer STEAM over STEM.- cristiana.mattosFeb 3, 2015

Study: Middle School Teachers as Savvy as Students with Techhttp://navigator.nmc.org/clipping/study-middle-school-teachers-savvy-students-tech
Researchers from the New York Institute of Technology, University of Connecticut and Utah State University have found that today’s school-age learners are no more technology savvy than their teachers. The team surveyed 1,079 middle school students, 774 from Utah and 305 New York, as well as 24 middle school science teachers from those states, ages 23–56, to discover how they compare in terms of tech experience. - davidwdeedsFeb 2, 2015 I always manage to irritate people by laughing at the "Digital Natives" silliness. Just because a kid can text 50 words a minute doesn't mean s/he knows how to effectively use technology to further his/her education! Yes, I agree - keep in mind technical fluency does not equate with knowing how to learn using digital technologies - lindsay.julieFeb 4, 2015

Supporting Teacher Competence Development for Better Learning Outcomesgo.nmc.org/support
The recommendations in this report are the result of a peer- learning process between experts on teacher education nominated by 26 countries and by European bodies of stakeholders that drew shared conclusions about how to implement effective policies. - anton.ingleseFeb 2, 2015- davidwdeedsFeb 2, 2015 I'm hoping that as of next year, our teachers will have a Mandatory Knowledge/Skill Set...if they don't measure up, they're OUT! - cristiana.mattosFeb 3, 2015- lindsay.julieFeb 4, 2015- kathryn.moyleFeb 20, 2015 Probably could do with supporting principals competence development as well...

Supporting Teachers in the Process of Adoption of Game Based Learning Pedagogygo.nmc.org/supporting
This paper proposes a model for teachers to integrate digital games and game- like activities such as role-playing and simulations into the classroom based on a study of six teachers adopting game-based learning for the first time. - davidwdeedsFeb 2, 2015 Hope to have a Games-Based Learning class next year, and I'll be training the teacher(s) for it.- cristiana.mattosFeb 3, 2015- lindsay.julieFeb 4, 2015

Time for Deeper Learning: Lessons from Five High Schoolsgo.nmc.org/timeand
This report focuses on a condition that must be apparent to facilitate deep learning, which is allocating sufficient time to activities and lessons that foster it. The five schools that the National Center on Time & Learning examines have each received support from the Hewlett Foundation for their dedication to deep learning.

Towards Teacher-Led Design Inquiry of Learninggo.nmc.org/inqui
This paper proposes teacher-led design inquiry of learning as a new model of educational practice and professional development that integrates teacher inquiry into student learning, learning design, and learning analytics.- jmorrisonJan 30, 2015- anton.ingleseFeb 2, 2015- davidwdeedsFeb 2, 2015 Teachers need training, but then students do too. Introduction of PBL is a good opportunity to do both simultaneously.- cristiana.mattosFeb 3, 2015- mariaFeb 5, 2015 We need more Action Research led my teachers in the trench. - michael.lambertFeb 7, 2015